Spring Roo not ready for google appengine (yet)

Spring Roo looks very promising for rapidly developing applications for Google AppEngine. SpringSource Tool Suite is the IDE I used to test the sample code and tried to write my own.

Unfortunately, Spring Roo is still a work in progress and (at least for me) not usable to do anything useful. In fact, I’ve not been able to run a hosted google appengine successfully.

GWT SDK is always missing (“No GWT SDK in classpath”) – you need to open the GWT settings dialog and then close it again (yes, really).

You need to enable Dependency Management (you’re expected to know this, the error is “Could not find any host pages in project“)

“perform” (to test and package – to run mvn commands) output is not shown, so you don’t know if your build has failed or not. (ROO-867) (Update: Fixed inÂ 1.1.0.M2)

Roo together with Datanucleus’ data enhancer does not seem to work with GAE SDK 1.3.4 (“Found Meta-Data for… but this class is not enhanced!! Please enhance the class before running DataNucleus.“) (I have no idea to get around this)

I cannot run it, from the eclipse right click run web application (i have a problem with datanucleus enhancer – cannot enhanced classes).
I seems i cannot build the project under eclipse, with the maven builder activated which launch the datanucleus enhancer process.

If i launch the command in sts or in command line with mvn gwt:run it works.